Flist help? Korean drama

[walkwithheroes]

Okay, I'm in such a mood for some good old fashion Korean melodrama. I saw a trailer for the American release of Tree of Heaven and remembered how Stairway to Heaven drove me insane. So, this past month I watched Sad Love Song and really enjoyed it. So, knowing my flist are lovers of Korean dramas, I could with a question:


What are so "old school" Korean melodramas (or epic dramas (think Giant, Seoul 1945) should I be watching?

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Eyes of Dawn and Sandglass are supposed to be the quintssential epic dramas.

Melodramas: Goodbye My Love, Save the Last Dance, Beautiful Days, Winter Sonata, Spring Waltz, Snow Queen

[walkwithheroes.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recs. I've actually seen Sandglass, Save the Last Dance, Snow Queen, and Spring Waltz. But, I'll check out the others.

[clairiere.livejournal.com]

I think misterX/WITHS2 is planning to sub Eye of Dawn this winter, maybe you could follow the drama while they do.

A couple of epic/period dramas (set in 20c) come to mind, but unfortunately, I don't think there are subs. Even something as 'recent' as the adaptation of Park Kyung Ni's Toji (The Land) on SBS in 2004 (http://tv.sbs.co.kr/toji/) hasn't been subbed, though the 50+ ep. challenge didn't help. My favorite version, the KBS adaptation from the late 1980s, lasted over 100+ eps. so that should tell you something about the scope and scale of Park's masterpiece. (The Times obituary for Park provides a good summary of Toji: 'Chronicling the lives of five generations of a rural landowning family in Park’s native province, this epic used their personalities and experiences as a microcosm of the history of the nation from the end of the 19th century, through decades of Japanese colonial rule, to the division of the Korean peninsula in 1945.')

As for melodramas, it's harder, but that's because I'm drawing a blank on the last time there was a melodrama proper (outside Xmas etc. with Go Soo). And if we go further back into the early 2000s or 1990s, we run into sub issues again.

[walkwithheroes.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll try Eye of Dawn this winter. Toji sounds interesting, it's a shame no version has ever been subbed. I don't think I ever finished WISAC?, so maybe I could finish that.